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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto You must have heard of hacking and how social media accounts, devices and even security systems often get hacked. But did you know there is an ethical side to hacking which helps us all in ways we do not often realise? Ethical hacking or white-hat hacking is a…
Examining the discussions on the 1965 Bill in Parliament, the researchers underline the arguments of Shakuntala Paranjpye, an advocate of birth control, who sought to add a restrictive clause limiting maternity benefits to the first two deliveries. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images A scholarly dissection of a contentious chapter…
Walk into any supermarket in an Indian city today, and you’ll likely spot a few baskets of avocados of different shapes and sizes. Once unfamiliar to most of us, this fruit has been steadily gaining popularity for its buttery texture and rich nutritional value, so much that it has become a staple on brunch menu’s….
A woman takes a picture of a handbag made with T. rex fossil-derived collagen on display at Museum ArtZoo in Amsterdam, on April 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists and designers unveiled on Thursday (April 2, 2026) a handbag made with collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils from the U.S. in a unique creation…
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This iconic frame from an early science fiction film shows a capsule landing on the Moon. Name the silent film released in 1902. Answer: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) Published – April 03, 2026 05:11 pm IST Read Comments Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Source link
This image taken from video provided by NASA shows the Earth, left, from NASA’s Orion spacecraft as it fired its engines heading toward the moon on Thursday, April 2, 2026. | Photo Credit: NASA via AP NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon on Thursday (April 2, 2026) night, breaking…
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The sight of the giant rocket bearing the NASA Artemis II mission and its crew of four ascending into the sky in the early hours of April 2 (IST) brought cheers among onlookers on the ground and around the world. The mission has taken many years and several billion dollars to develop and brings the…
Iran is expected to have around 500 kg of uranium enriched to 60%. U-235 is the isotope of uranium conventionally used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Enrichment is the process of increasing the quantity of U-235 in the uranium mass. The rest will be U-238, which is not a good fissile material. Whereas a…
An exploded view of the ITER nuclear-fusion facility. A human figure in orange is shown just below the image’s centre for scale. The reactor vessel is visible at the centre (with the D-shaped cross-section). | Photo Credit: DOI:10.1088/1741-4326/aa626c Researchers and investors worldwide are currently pouring billions of dollars into nuclear fusion in the hopes that…
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In December last year, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) upcoming missions that the Department of Space had scheduled seven major missions by March 2026. Of these, only one — the LVM3 M6 mission by NewSpace India, Ltd. (NSIL) — was…
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